Today's News

A meow from a storm grate resulted in the rescue of a kitten in Leland on Monday night.

Leland Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department personnel were dispatched to Fat Tony’s Italian Pub at Waterford at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 28 after the assistant general manager, Brook Carpenter, called to report a kitten stuck in a storm drain in the parking lot.

She’d tried to rescue the animal herself, to no avail.

Carpenter said she talked to an off-duty police officer in her restaurant about what to do, and he told her she would need to call 911.

A Burlington man is accused of sex crimes involving a child that happened 16 years ago in Oak Island.

Alamance County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested 45-year-old James Floyd Cameron at his Baptist Church Loop Road home Nov. 18 on two felony charges: indecent liberties with a child and committing a crime against nature.

According to warrants issued by Oak Island police June 6, 2004, Cameron committed the sex crimes when he was 30 against a victim younger than 16 between June 1, 2001, and Aug. 1, 2001.

LITTLE RIVER, S.C. — In 1993, Calvin Saunders and his late wife, Tommie, noticed something about the women of Little River United Methodist Church: many were alone and might remain alone on Thanksgiving.

Brunswick County’s unemployment rate remained below 6 percent for September at 5.9 percent.

The rate change continued a monthly fluctuation, rising from 5.7 percent in August and 5.6 percent in July. The unemployment rate for June jumped up to 5.8 percent after hitting a year low of 5.5 percent in May. The unemployment rate last reached 6 percent in April.

The rates dropped significantly compared with early 2016, when Brunswick County had 6.7 percent unemployment for March, 7.8 percent in February and 8.1 percent in January.

Brunswick County’s residential real estate market demonstrated strength and consistency throughout the month of October. The number of units sold and the average sales price both increased while available inventory decreased, according to the most recent statistics from the Brunswick County Association of Realtors.

The average sales price was $247,136 for October of 2016, compared with $236,765 for October of 2015, a 4.4 percent increase.